# This fucking board is pushing me towards voting Republican **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 5, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fucking-board-is-pushing-me-towards-voting-republican/573554 "2011-03-05T02:23:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fucking-board-is-pushing-me-towards-voting-republican/573554/11 "2011-03-05T02:46:53Z")
> [@Rumor\_Watkins](#): > > I’m not angry at the practice so much as the attempt to justify it. Wisconsin Dems are just representing their constituents and vigorously upholding the democratic process. State X Republicans are raping babies and destroying the concept of democratic society. I agree that one should, as a matter of principle, be consistent on this issue. If leaving the state is a valid political tactic when your side does it, then you shouldn’t complain too much when the other side does it; if you bitch and moan when the other side does it, then you shouldn’t defend your own side when they do it. Having said said, i don’t think it’s any more silly and inconsistent, on a philosophical level, than your argument about filibustering: > [@Wisconsin orders arrest of missing Democrats. Legal?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-orders-arrest-of-missing-democrats-legal/573396/63): > > never said they were doing anything illegal. I said that what they’re doing isn’t consistent with a democratic form of government. fillibustering (while I would share in your characterization of it as rancid and retarded) is a component of a legislative assembly. it shouldn’t, but it is. While you are right that filibustering is a component of a legislative body, as a matter of principle it is no more or less a perversion of the democratic process than running away, IMO. The fact that a legislator can stand there and drone on for hours or days about his grandmother’s apple pie recipes and the vacations he took as a child, when he’s supposed to be addressing a bill about tax increases or healthcare, is exactly as big a “fuck you” to the democratic process as not showing up in the first place. The fact that there is no mechanism to stop such irrelevant sidetracking doesn’t change the fact that it completely subverts what the democratic process is supposed to be about, which is dealing with and voting on the actual issues. In short, you’ve drawn a spurious distinction. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fucking-board-is-pushing-me-towards-voting-republican/573554)._